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Feb 17, 2005

"We feel strongly that the language of war should not be sanitized and that there is nothing indecent about its use in this context." In a memo to public TV stations, producers of Frontline ask them to take a stand for the First Amendment by airing a documentary that includes the real language of soldiers in combat [via Romenesko].

"I just wanted to make clear that I've got 15 months left on this job and let's make this as constructive as we can," says PBS President Pat Mitchell in a Washington Post column that links her announcement that she'll leave PBS next year to her handling of the Buster "two mommies" program.